Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “I think we need to make sure we beef up their mandate, particularly on the peacekeeping side.”

This is part of their playbook. They have done this before. They did it in 2014, and it was not accepted.

We certainly should look at what he`s doing in the same way. We saw the beginnings of what Hitler was doing. He has built a strategy around destroying a country, destroying a people, human rights violations have been committed, sexual…

So, now, let me be clear, the United States will never recognize any territory Russia attempts to seize or allegedly annex, as anything other than parts of Ukraine. We reject Russia's actions unequivocally.

We have held the doors open for meaningful diplomacy and we remain open to dialogue, real productive dialogue without preconditions.